Our expert guide to holidays in The Canary Islands, including information on
travel, hotels and accommodation, museums, and sights.

Getting there

Check Ryanair, easyJet, Aer Lingus, jet2 and Monarch for deals on flights to Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote or Fuerteventura, which are often available for around £80 return.

Where to stay

The Finca de Arrieta (928 826720; www.lanzaroteretreats.com) eco retreat in Lanzarote offers luxury accommodation in yurts and villas, with solar panels and windmills providing all the energy. Help yourself to eggs, fruit and vegetables for breakfast, then chill out by the pool or explore the untouristy north of the island. A week in a sumptuous yurt for two costs from €575 (£514).

Go to a different beach every day on Fuerteventura. Sunshine holidays (www.sunshine.co.uk, online only) is offering a week at the three-star Fuerteventura Beach Club Bungalows in Caleta de Fuste, a great small family resort, for £888 in July for two adults and two children, including flights from Liverpool (other airports available) and transfers.

In Gran Canaria, the small Rose complex in Playa del Inglés is near the vast beach and dramatic sand dunes on the southern tip of the island. The apartments are all very well equipped and there is free Wi-Fi. A week’s rental for a two-bedroom apartment costs around £560 in April with Vividcanaries (0871 8551565; www.vividcanaries.co.uk).

Budget-stretchers

In Lanzarote, why not go and see some of the extraordinary structures created in the volcanic landscape by César Manrique (www.cesarmanrique.com), the local artist and architect who saved the island from excessive development and who fought for buildings to be no higher than the tallest palm tree. The Cesar Manrique foundation is in Taro de Tahiche and open from 10am-6pm, but you can see his wind sculptures on roundabouts all over the islands for nothing.